EAN: 9781433109102

DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA - TAUEL HARPE...

In the age of the spectacle  democracy has never looked so bleak. Our world  saturated with
media and marketing  endlessly confronts us with spectacles vying for our attention: from Apple
and 9 11 to Facebook and the global financial crisis. Democratic politics  by comparison 
remain far from engaging. A society obsessed with spectacles results in a complete misfiring of
the democratic system. This book uses critical democratic theory to outline the effects of
consumer culture on citizenship. It highlights the importance that public space plays in
creating the critical culture necessary for a healthy democracy  and outlines how contemporary
'public' spaces - shopping centres  the Internet  social networking sites and suburban
communities - contribute to this culture. Terrorism  ecological destruction and the financial
crisis are also outlined as symptoms of the politics of the spectacle. The book concludes with
some basic principles and novel suggestions which could be employed to avoid the pitfalls
inherent in our spectacular existence.

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